A staff of the St. Joseph Catholic Hospital has expressed gratitude to management, after returning from Ghana, where he attended a three day workshop for Hospitals using the Patient Health Information System (PHIS). The training workshop which brought together representatives from all hospitals using PHIS was held in Kumasi, Ghana. Read more on “St. Joseph IT Administrator Attends PHIS Training In Kumasi, Ghana”

A team of nine doctors headed by Dr. Javier Salmen is currently carrying on surgery for women with Fistula at the St Joseph Catholic Hospital in Monrovia. The team, which consists of both surgeons and gynecologist, arrived on November 25, 2016, and is expected to be in the country for two weeks.Read more on “Fistula Team Visit St. Joseph Catholic Hospital”

Last month of July, fourteen selected staff members of SJCH, three members of the Liberian Medicines & Health Products Regulatory Authority (LMHRA) and one member of the ‘Stella Maris Polytechnic Mother Patern College of Health Sciences’received a four-day training on ‘Good Clinical Practices’ and ‘Good Laboratory Practices’ in biomedical research.The course is part of a European-funded project (SELeCT) that aims to buildinstitutional capacities to conduct clinical trials by training hospital personnel on clinical trial conduct, upgrading laboratory infrastructure, and building community trust in health research. Read more on “SJCH Staff Members Participate in a Course to Strengthen Capacities in Biomedical Research”

The worst epidemic of ebola in History

The outbreak of ebola in West Africa is the biggest in History, and it is the first time that affects several countries at the same time: Liberia, Guinea Conakry and Sierra Leona. First cases were detected in January 2014, and the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared oficially the epidemic in March.

From then on, cases of this disease –with a mortality rate over 90%– had increased, with 518 deaths up to date, which makes this epidemic the most serious, besides it being the first time that the disease outbreaks in this region. Previous known eruptions happened in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda.

Hospitals of the Hospitaller Order of Saint John of God in Sierra Leona and Liberia are taking care of patients with ebola, in coordination with the Ministries of Health, which count on scant resources and facilities to face this epidemic, and that is why it is so urgent to control and stop the progress of the disease.

Your help will serve to provide resources to these Hospitals that let them to take proper care of this emergency, allowing a better care for patients with ebola and for health workers and their families.

What do we ask for

Donations to install an isolated area and buy specific medical stuff and disinfectant products for the right control and treatment of ebola.

Nowadays the vaccine is inexistent, hence the treatment is just symptomatic.

Why

Because medical equipment required for treatment of ebola are expensive and our Hospitals in Liberia en Sierra Leona can´t afford them and are asking for help.